eating a sandwich (2024)

Solarfast print on discarded industrial shipping foam of a 35 negative scan split into separate CMYK channels positive transparencies and exposed with sunlight. Total time for application, exposures, and drying was approximately 1 week.

The title references a personal story of how photography came into my life. The materials used were a choice to express the need for remediation of my practice after years of working with the photograph as a medium with concerns. The image is a distortion of a landscape which was intentionally made to reference photography’s role in erasure of indigenous histories. The familiar and “beautiful image” of the national parks hold so much more than what we see with our own eyes. Traditional photography can expose what is seen through a lens onto film, similar to what we can see with our eyes, but the practice of working with this method has shown me the possibility of visualizing more than what our eyes see, the materials visibility feels like a remedy. If traditional methods are historically known for rendering the invisible more invisible, this method has potential for exposing the unseen.